Chapter 79:
Extra: The Heart’s Voice – An even more fatal voice emerged.
Yan Jingyu quickly kicked Liao Chen out, telling him to teach the little phoenix cub to meditate and cultivate when he had nothing to do.
Once a pure-blooded phoenix awakened its bloodline, it could reach the Cloud-Soaring Realm at the age of three. In the past, it was always Yan Jingyu who was responsible for his homework, but he was not a phoenix after all and could not judge what kind of cultivation technique would best fit the phoenix clan’s bloodline.
Therefore, it was usually Liao Chen who tutored him in his cultivation. He himself was now mainly teaching him to read and write, lest he be deceived like Liao Chen in the future and not even know what was going on.
When he came out of the Vast Expanse Book, Feng Guiyu was sitting obediently with Liao Chen, the big and the small neatly arranged.
This must be the power of the bloodline…
Yan Jingyu, while feeling a little jealous, also felt a sense of peace. Just as his mood had reached a bottleneck, he saw the big one suddenly open his eyes, his voice cold. “You finally know to come out.”
“You miss me?”
As soon as his tone came out, Yan Jingyu reflexively replied. Liao Chen sneered. “You were more pleasing to the eye when you were a waste.”
“…” Yan Jingyu glared at him fiercely, sat down on the side himself, and entered his spiritual abode to begin cultivating.
The longer he stayed with Liao Chen, the more Yan Jingyu would doubt if he really liked him. He really wanted to get the best silent poison in the world and make him never be able to open his mouth again.
Or maybe I should just use the marriage contract to die with him…
This kind of thought often popped up in his mind.
He had always been talented, and the mind-reading curse was within his authority. A territory that others would find difficult to set foot in for a lifetime was actually broken by him within three days.
He opened his eyes on the couch, his divine sense sweeping out. He found that Feng Guiyu had gone to fish with Liao Chen again. But when his divine sense swept over, Feng Guiyu was pouting like a bitter melon. Liao Chen’s divine sense timely intervened, making it difficult for him to find out what was happening over there.
Yan Jingyu’s heart suddenly grew curious. He thought for a moment, and his footsteps lightly walked over there.
He had to get to the bottom of this. What on earth did Liao Chen have that he didn’t, to make such a mischievous little cub obey him so willingly?
“Yu Daidai!” As soon as Feng Guiyu saw him, his expression was one of pleasant surprise. Yan Jingyu’s heart softened. He walked over and looked at the fishing rod in his hand, unable to help but laugh. “How many did you catch?”
As he spoke, he sat down beside him and took the fishing rod for him. The rod was a normal style. Although it didn’t quite fit his body, Feng Guiyu’s strength was already comparable to that of an ordinary adult, so it wasn’t difficult to hold.
“Liao Daidai caught one, gave it to Ling Guoguo’s crowd, and said we’d have it for dinner.”
He learned to speak quite quickly. Although his speech was still not very clear now, and he still had to think about some words for a while, he could already express his meaning clearly. Yan Jingyu nodded. As he stroked his head, he secretly glanced at Liao Chen.
“Why are you being so sneaky?”
“…” Yan Jingyu smiled slightly. “Want to go out for a stroll tonight?”
As soon as his voice fell, Feng Guiyu’s eyes lit up. He immediately came to hold Yan Jingyu’s arm. Liao Chen also turned his head and glanced at him. “You want me to be your free teleportation gate again, right?”
“…It’s not like you have to.” Yan Jingyu was annoyed. “Isn’t it almost your birthday? I want to buy some things to tidy this place up a bit.”
Although the ruins of Jiuyi Mountain had been cleaned up, most of the places were still incomplete. Yan Jingyu’s original intention was to create a scene whenever he was interested. When the little phoenixes hatched one after another, the mountain would become lively, and there would have to be many facilities for playing.
Liao Chen seemed to be stunned for a moment. He reacted for a while before he said, “Birthday?”
“That’s right. Weren’t you born on June thirteenth?” Yan Jingyu also only knew his birth date through the Heavenly Mandate. After all, Liao Chen could be said to have been born while he was watching. But he himself clearly did not remember this matter. He glanced at Yan Jingyu again, then suddenly turned his face away. “It’s not interesting.”
“I’m not planning a big celebration for you.” Yan Jingyu said, “At that time, I’ll show off my skills and personally cook two dishes. You can have a taste?”
Liao Chen looked at the water surface for a while again before he grunted in a noncommittal way.
He only discovered after getting married that life was just like that no matter how you lived it. In Lingyun City at night, the two of them walked lazily. Feng Guiyu was held by their small hands, from time to time lifting his feet off the ground, letting the two adults’ hands swing him like a swing, giggling non-stop.
A family of three suddenly walked towards them. The child was sitting on his father’s neck, holding a small wooden sword in his hand, and shouting, “Big horse, charge—giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up!”
Feng Guiyu’s foot suddenly landed on the ground. He looked at the child’s father running past like a big horse with longing eyes.
He secretly rolled his eyes to look at Liao Chen. Liao Chen didn’t even give him a single glance.
So Feng Guiyu went to look at Yan Jingyu, gently tugging at him. Yan Jingyu came back to his senses from his surroundings and lowered his eyes gently. “Hmm?”
Feng Guiyu gestured to that side, still with a look of longing.
Yan Jingyu reacted, the corners of his lips curving. He directly picked him up. “Alright, ride the big horse.”
As he spoke, he placed him on Liao Chen’s neck. Feng Guiyu spread his short legs and giggled again. But Liao Chen teleported two steps forward without looking back, directly letting him ride on empty air. Feng Guiyu’s mouth pouted. He turned and hugged Yan Jingyu’s neck, and let out a wail.
Yan Jingyu, while coaxing him, said, “Don’t cry, don’t cry. I’ll let you ride me, be good.”
Just as he was about to lift the child onto his neck, Liao Chen shot him a sidelong glance. Feng Guiyu, he didn’t know what he was trying to do, but he simply held Yan Jingyu’s neck and cried with a mosquito-like voice, “I want Liao Daidai, Liao Daidai, woooo…”
In the past, Liao Chen had often used magic to torture him. Now that Yan Jingyu was here, he had to get some revenge.
Of course, Yan Jingyu didn’t know what he was thinking. He just gently patted his back, his mood complicated. You really are closer to him…
He walked over and tugged at Liao Chen’s sleeve.
Liao Chen’s expression was unhappy. “He wants to turn the world upside down.”
“He’s close to you.”
Liao Chen looked at Feng Guiyu. The latter secretly rolled his eyes to look at his expression. As soon as he met his gaze, he immediately turned back, pouted, and continued to bury his face in Yan Jingyu’s neck, crying.
“Just for half an incense stick’s time.” Yan Jingyu negotiated, then tugged at him again. “You’re a big phoenix, he’s a little phoenix. It won’t hurt to ride him for a bit.”
Liao Chen walked forward coldly. Feng Guiyu immediately started to cry again. As he cried, he started to hiccup. As he hiccupped, he held Yan Jingyu’s neck and trembled. Yan Jingyu had no choice but to pat his shoulder to soothe him. His feet chased after Liao Chen again, frowning. “Just from here to that bridge, okay? It’s not even a hundred steps. What’s wrong with you satisfying him for a bit?”
Feng Guiyu was still sobbing. As he sobbed, he added a cough. Tears were flying wildly, and his eyeballs were rolling towards Liao Chen. As soon as he found Yan Jingyu looking over, his eyes immediately rolled up, as if he were about to faint.
Liao Chen finally stopped his steps, glanced at the extremely troubled Yan Jingyu, then at Feng Guiyu, who was about to cry himself to death, and finally let out a laugh. “This point is quite like you.”
Yan Jingyu: “?”
Before he could react, Liao Chen had already directly grabbed the cub by the armpits and carried him over, placing him on his own neck, and said faintly, “You said it, just to that bridge.”
Feng Guiyu finally stopped crying. He immediately raised his hand and wiped his tears. Just as he was about to grab his hair crown and show off his might, the hand that had just been wiping his tears had just been put down when he found that the willow tree beside him was shady, the water was gurgling, and Liao Chen had once again grabbed him by the armpits and put him down. Looking at his dazed little face, he smiled slightly. “We’re here.”
Yan Jingyu had only blinked, and he found that he had already directly teleported to the bridge. His figure followed. He looked at the exceptionally silent Feng Guiyu, who was internally regretting that he shouldn’t have wiped his tears, and let out a “pfft” laugh.
He picked up the child again. “Alright, you’ve ridden him. Don’t cry.”
Feng Guiyu had a look of grievance on his face. Liao Chen’s gaze was contemptuous, with a hint of mockery.
As expected, like teacher, like student. But this little cub is still far from the Yan Jingyu of his youth. If he wants to fight with him, he’s still far from it.
Yan Jingyu coaxed him again. Feng Guiyu opened his arms and voluntarily threw himself into his embrace, looking a little resentful towards Liao Chen.
Yan Jingyu, while feeling his intimacy, became more and more curious. With Liao Chen’s attitude, how on earth did he make Feng Guiyu so devoted to him?
After strolling around the city, Yan Jingyu first carried Feng Guiyu to the small bed next door. In the past, Feng Guiyu always had to change back to his original form and sleep on his pillow. Generally, only when the two of them were preparing to be intimate would they put the child next door.
Liao Chen clearly also realized something. He took the initiative to follow over and made the small bed. He watched as he gently helped Feng Guiyu take off his shoes and socks, and tucked him in with the small quilt. “He is a phoenix. He won’t catch a cold,” he said in a low voice.
The phoenix clan belonged to the flame beasts and had a fire seed in their bodies. Although they wouldn’t catch a cold, they were prone to wind-heat. Yan Jingyu had flipped through all the books while raising the child. He grunted in acknowledgement. “When I was a child, my mother always took care of me like this. I’m used to it.”
Liao Chen did not reply.
His memory of his mother was already very blurry. He had been trapped in the jade for too long, and later, after entering the world, he had always been busy making a living and had no time to think about the years before he was three. In addition, he had human blood and did not have a complete memory from the moment he hatched like the phoenix clan. Now, he could only barely remember the gentle eyebrows and eyes of that woman, and nothing more.
“You have the Heavenly Mandate.” Liao Chen said, “If you are willing, we can try to go back and collect your parents’ souls.”
“Aren’t my father’s souls on me?” He was talking about the piece of thunder-element Heavenly Soul. “My mother, in order to protect me and let me leave, had her soul scattered and annihilated. My father also condensed into a dead object… but I still have you.”
He timely looked up and directly skipped this topic, voluntarily opening his arms and making a gesture.
Liao Chen’s heart softened. He took the opportunity to bend down and pick him up. Yan Jingyu wrapped his arms around his neck and said deliberately, “Do you like holding me or holding a child?”
Liao Chen carried him all the way to the main house, his eyes never leaving his face. “Why are you suddenly asking this?”
Yan Jingyu’s hands formed a talisman behind his head. He said deliberately, “I just want to know.”
Liao Chen did not answer, but just lowered his head and kissed his lips. The next instant, a slight coolness suddenly came from the back of his neck. He paused for a moment. “What is it?”
Yan Jingyu directly kissed his lips. His fingers gently tapped a few times on the back of his head, and the talisman gently entered his neck.
A seven-day mind-reading curse… I’ll test it on you.
Liao Chen soon forgot about the matter behind his head. A voice suddenly jumped out in Yan Jingyu’s sea of consciousness: “So sweet…”
His pupils slightly dilated. He felt the softness on his lips and subconsciously held his breath for a moment. He suddenly realized that it seemed not to be the right time to cast a curse on him…
Liao Chen’s lips came to the back of his ear. A voice jumped out in Yan Jingyu’s sea of consciousness again, as if it were murmuring, “So fragrant…”
Yan Jingyu’s ears gradually turned red. While holding him upright, he began to try to take out the curse.
No, how do you undo this curse… he seems to have not thought about how to undo the curse yet.
“Your ears are so tender.” Yan Jingyu’s face gradually flushed red. His eyes rolled slightly. Not until Liao Chen sensed something and looked at him, his voice hoarse. “What’s wrong?”
Yan Jingyu subconsciously smiled. Liao Chen’s gaze was slightly dazed.
Another voice jumped out in Yan Jingyu’s mind. “Jingyu, so beautiful.”
“…” Yan Jingyu’s goosebumps were about to rise. He reflexively wanted to withdraw, but Liao Chen suddenly pressed him down again and kissed him heavily.
At the same time, the other’s body was rubbing back and forth on him.
An even more fatal voice popped out.
“…I really want to f*ck right in.”
